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A ghazal poem is a form of poetry consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain, but there is more to a ghazal. What is ghazal in poetry (complete definition)?
How niceIf stagnant air turns breeze, how nice,
Desire, to ‘was’ from ‘is’, how nice.
What was mere flash has flared to fire,
If doubts fade, in fire cease, how nice.
If mind’s every crease straightens up,
Body be on free...
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Categories:
hope, spiritual,
Form: Ghazal
Poor man, marriedHe thinks post nor prior, poor man’s married,
He looks but sees no more, poor man’s married.
Late from office and empty-handed still,
Now catches up with chore, poor man’s married.
Get up when told gets up, sits when...
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Categories:
humor, husband,
Form: Ghazal
To kindle love latent withinYou have no time, time’s not with us,
Still, love aught be brought back with us.
Let not time rob our love in life,
Nor spill the pot of love with us.
Forgotten we have naught with time,
Nor...
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Categories:
love,
Form: Ghazal
The wound was there well beforeThe wound was there O well before,
And weapon to wear, well before.
News of my death made no diff’rence,
All were nigh aware well before.
What happened sure was to happen,
No use to beware well before.
Disease was diagnosed...
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Categories:
voice, writing,
Form: Ghazal
UnadoredI tremble before you, my vying emotion
I thought I could be loved with complying emotion
My mirror used to love my sight
there is no more of that undying emotion
Neglect tore at me, scattering me into shards
This...
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Categories:
child abuse, hurt, mental
Form: Ghazal
BLACK AND WHITEOn-off, the sum of all thought given; a light switch is poor a choice for our soul
I'm allowed to answer right or wrong; tell me, then, what gives me power soul?
Gardens are planted meant to...
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Categories:
deep,
Form: Ghazal
Mirror in heartIf there’s in heart a small mirror,
What need there’s for a wall mirror?
Heart would reveal your veiled intent,
Let no dust befall on mirror.
One that conceals human conceit,
We never can call a mirror.
But...
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Categories:
heart, mirror,
Form: Ghazal
Rhyme as if asks refrainWhere’s right terrain, rain as if asks,
Where to go, a train as if asks.
Utterly baffled of its task,
What if I bless, bane as if asks.
What should I do in state of Zen?
My mind in...
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Categories:
pain, rain,
Form: Ghazal
Just like thatLet’s live somewhat light just like that,
Light of needless weight just like that.
The train when comes to take, let’s go,
Board light and alight just like that.
If face potholes in life, to leap
And go ahead...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Ghazal
Tonn ChliodhnaTonn Chliodhna
My lover haunts here, he hears me plead
with each ninth wave, I break and bleed.
I left Tir Tairngine, for Ciabhad’s love,
jealous MacLir would intercede
That deity in vengeance wrought
a spell borne from his lust and...
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Categories:
myth, mythology, sea,
Form: Ghazal
In the g'night of spaceThere's a solar wind that's contained; in the night of space
Shadows find nowhere to show; the inner light of space
Impossible to touch, it leaves us; without a trace
Frozen rings of breathing streams blasting the bright...
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Categories:
deep, solitude, space,
Form: Ghazal
Traditions, Our Way of Life: CountsLove contests in quantities, like numbers,
game of chance for romance by the numbers,
You and you, pick one or two, left first choose,
then right follows through ... awake the numbers,
if I was you, don't let romance...
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Categories:
appreciation, character, future, growing
Form: Ghazal
Spun from the NightIs this how love’s day spring suddenly becomes night?
I’m a helpless victim imprisoned in the night.
How many souls have you captured oh, enchantress?
Your purple garden blossoms to bring trailing night.
An accomplished and long-gone pretty Delilah,
The...
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Categories:
grief, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Ghazal
In the world of loveIn the world of love, where hearts dance free,
A ghazal of longing, I shall weave for thee.
Like a gentle breeze, love brushes our souls,
Transforming us into beings whole, bold and free.
In the night's embrace, passion...
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Categories:
feelings, love, poetry,
Form: Ghazal
Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?
Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware my sweet love,
Forlorn is the song, vying favor of this...
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Categories:
romantic,
Form: Ghazal
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